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VOL. 13, NO. 22
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES EMPLOYEES' WEEKLY PUBLICATION
JUNE 1, 1950
FIRST CONNIE SKY COACH CABBIES 114
Bandit Takes Oil
With $151 at DCA;
Skips $4000 Cash
Washington—An armed bandit held up the city ticket office
here just before closing time last
Saturday, escaping with $151.
That was a small loss compared
to the $4000 he might have gotten
and another $2300 which had been
deposited at the bank at noon.
Alone in the office at the holdup
time, Ticket Agent Frank M.
Galloway said his "customer" first
asked for information about a trip
to Detroit. Informed that TWA
does not fly directly to YIP, he
inquired about schedules to Chicago, and then asked for two
reservations.
"What is your name?" Galloway
asked.
"Don't move," the bandit answered, pulling out a gun, "give
me all the money."
Galloway told police the gunman was "quite theatrical" in his
demands.
The agent took $51 from a
drawer and handed it over.
"That's not enough," the bandit snapped. "Where's the real
money?"
Galloway said it was in a safe
in the rear of the office. The gunman forced him to remove another
$100 from the safe, not knowing
another drawer contained the
$4000, then asked:
"Is there a closet back here
where I can lock you up?" Galloway said there wasn't.'
"Play it smart," commanded the
holdup man. "Stay where you are
and keep your mouth shut for
five minutes. If you don't I'll come
back and get you if it takes me
10 years."
MAXINE TO BE A PRINCESS
Kansas City — TWA's candidate for Kansas City's centennial
queen, Maxine Horner, will serve
as a princess during the 100th anniversary celebration. With the
help of her hard-working supporters, Maxine placed fourth in
the contest.
JOKE OF THE WEEK
The foreman believed in getting the workers to co-operate
with him. In an effort to inspire
them to an even greater output,
he called them together for a
consultation.
"Whenever I enter the workshop," he said pleasantly, "I
want to see every man cheerfully
performing his task with as much
speed as possible. Now, I am
going to place this box by the
door, and I want you to place in
it any ideas you may have as
to how we can bring this about."
A few days later he opened
the box to find one solitary piece
of paper. On it was written:
"Take the rubber heels off your
shoes."
OUR BOY RIDES AGAIN1 But this time it's Boston
district Sales manager, JIMMIE deREVERE, who shows
what Paul Revere would have been up against in this
air-minded era. Instead of "one if by land and two if
by sea," it would also have to be "three if by air."
Also, whereas the gallant Paul's transportation was one
horsepower, his 1950 counterpart is astride a 2200-
horsepower engine, one of four on the TWA Connie
which landed in BOS for the city's aviation day jubilee.
The celebration was attended by 75,000 people.
Solving Mysterious Case oi Missing Mail Man
May Be Role You Can Play as Sherlock Holmes
KANSAS City—Do you sometimes get so mad you start cussing
everyone down the line because your morning mail is long, long past
due?
Do you take it out on your secretary?
The mail boy?
The limo driver?
The cargo handler?
The plane captain?
The weather man?
Or did you ever stop to think
that maybe you were at fault?
Could be.
Herb Protzmann, superintendent
of Office Management, has been
receiving one complaint after another regarding the late arrival of
dispatch mail. A little investigating
has turned up these examples:
At station A the mail was always late at the district office but
on time at the airport offices. It
was found that the station's mail
arrived early in the morning—
before the district offices were
open. It therefore did not go into
the city with the early morning
limo but stayed at the station. The
next TWA flight was late in the
afternoon and the dispatch was
held for the limo serving that
flight—only to arrive downtown
too late to be handled that day.
Headwork Needed
This happened regularly but no
one bothered to ask why? Had
downtown and the airport gotten
their heads together the mail could
USE COMPANY DISPATCH
In most instances company
dispatch service will be faster
than special delivery airmail to
on-line stations. The stamps are
impressive but the string envelope is fasterl
Every day an average of 1,600
pounds of dispatch are handled
through the Kansas City mail
room. At 96c a pound at U. S.
airmail rates, that's an average
gross savings of $1,536 in postage per day.
Use company dispatch — it
saves you valuable time and
saves the company thousands of
dollars!
have been sent in early in the day
on a limo serving a flight for
another airline. That simple!
At station B the dispatch arrived
in the wee hours of the morning.
By 9 a. m. the district office had
its mail but at 3 p. m. the airport
offices had seen nothing of theirs!
Again, nobody asked why. A little
investigation found the station's
mail pouch on a commissary cart
in the hangar—unintentionally forgotten for nearly 12 hours. A
couple of phone calls early in the
day probably would have solved
the mystery in a hurry.
The district office at station C
(Continued on Page 6)
Air Competition
Plays Small Part
In Rail Decline
Washington—Claims of subsidized airline competition as a factor in declining railroad revenue
were refuted last week by Robert
Ramspeck, executive vice-president
of the Air Transport association,
before top rail executives sitting
in on a sub-committee meeting of
the Senate Interstate and Foreign
Commerce committee.
Ramspeck told the rail men
that, while airlines have boosted
their passenger traffic, railroads
lost seven times as much as the
airlines gained last year.
A Powerful Trend
Citing factors more important
than airline competition which
have caused rail losses, Ramspeck
said railroads have been showing
declining passenger traffic ever
since the close of World War I,
years before the arrival of the commercial air transport.
In 1933 the rails recorded only
12 billion passenger miles. After
that, rail carriers effected a partial
recovery due to the general revival
of business and also due to improved rail equipment and reduced
rates.
"But the basic cause of the present decrease in rail traffic is a
resumption and continuation of
a trend more powerful than air-
(Continued on Page 6)
A predicted all-time record for
air travel over the long Memorial
day week-end got off to a flying
start last Friday when the first
Constellation Sky Coach out of Los
Angeles carried 114 persons —
believed to be the largest number
of persons carried on a regularly
scheduled airline flight.
The record load consisted of 77
adults, 32 infants in arms under
two years of age and five crew
members.
With the Connie filled on its initial eastbound coach flight, a second section with DC-4 equipment
was added from LAX to accommodate another 51 passengers.
Other indications of a probable
record week-end came from Chicago and Indianapolis, two of the
first stations to report new high
loadings.
Chicago topped its previous system record of 898 passengers loaded
in one day by handling 1049 passengers on May 26, first day of
the four-day peak period.
Indianapolis TWAers on May
30 tacked up a new boarding mark
with 281 passengers, breaking their
station record of 230 set last year
on the same date.
Beulah Scott Moves to
MKC as Archives Chief
New York — Beulah Scott, file
specialist here, will transfer to
Kansas City June 5 where she will
be supervisor of the company's Archives department, according to
Marie Acton, Files Installation supervisor, MKC.
Miss ScOtt will replace Kay Storr
Winman, who is resigning July 1
to give her full time to being a
housewife.
A TWAer for four years, "Scot-
tie," as she prefers to be called,
brings a wealth of file training to
her MKC position. She is a graduate of the New York School of
Filing and also New York university, where she studied records
management courses.
After a few years in the business
world, she couldn't resist the government's offer of girl's career with
the navy. As a WAVE Scottie
served in the office of naval intelligence for two and a half years,
stationed in Washington, D.C., and
Honolulu.
PHL BOWLS 'EM OVER
Philadelphia — The district
office here is bowling 'em over—
with reservations, that is, for the
American Bowling congress in
Columbus. One hundred and five
bookings have been made so far
and the event still has 10 days to
go. PHL also booked 75% of the
women from the city who bowled
in the women's tourney in Minneapolis; the other 25% used train.

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VOL. 13, NO. 22
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES EMPLOYEES' WEEKLY PUBLICATION
JUNE 1, 1950
FIRST CONNIE SKY COACH CABBIES 114
Bandit Takes Oil
With $151 at DCA;
Skips $4000 Cash
Washington—An armed bandit held up the city ticket office
here just before closing time last
Saturday, escaping with $151.
That was a small loss compared
to the $4000 he might have gotten
and another $2300 which had been
deposited at the bank at noon.
Alone in the office at the holdup
time, Ticket Agent Frank M.
Galloway said his "customer" first
asked for information about a trip
to Detroit. Informed that TWA
does not fly directly to YIP, he
inquired about schedules to Chicago, and then asked for two
reservations.
"What is your name?" Galloway
asked.
"Don't move," the bandit answered, pulling out a gun, "give
me all the money."
Galloway told police the gunman was "quite theatrical" in his
demands.
The agent took $51 from a
drawer and handed it over.
"That's not enough," the bandit snapped. "Where's the real
money?"
Galloway said it was in a safe
in the rear of the office. The gunman forced him to remove another
$100 from the safe, not knowing
another drawer contained the
$4000, then asked:
"Is there a closet back here
where I can lock you up?" Galloway said there wasn't.'
"Play it smart," commanded the
holdup man. "Stay where you are
and keep your mouth shut for
five minutes. If you don't I'll come
back and get you if it takes me
10 years."
MAXINE TO BE A PRINCESS
Kansas City — TWA's candidate for Kansas City's centennial
queen, Maxine Horner, will serve
as a princess during the 100th anniversary celebration. With the
help of her hard-working supporters, Maxine placed fourth in
the contest.
JOKE OF THE WEEK
The foreman believed in getting the workers to co-operate
with him. In an effort to inspire
them to an even greater output,
he called them together for a
consultation.
"Whenever I enter the workshop," he said pleasantly, "I
want to see every man cheerfully
performing his task with as much
speed as possible. Now, I am
going to place this box by the
door, and I want you to place in
it any ideas you may have as
to how we can bring this about."
A few days later he opened
the box to find one solitary piece
of paper. On it was written:
"Take the rubber heels off your
shoes."
OUR BOY RIDES AGAIN1 But this time it's Boston
district Sales manager, JIMMIE deREVERE, who shows
what Paul Revere would have been up against in this
air-minded era. Instead of "one if by land and two if
by sea," it would also have to be "three if by air."
Also, whereas the gallant Paul's transportation was one
horsepower, his 1950 counterpart is astride a 2200-
horsepower engine, one of four on the TWA Connie
which landed in BOS for the city's aviation day jubilee.
The celebration was attended by 75,000 people.
Solving Mysterious Case oi Missing Mail Man
May Be Role You Can Play as Sherlock Holmes
KANSAS City—Do you sometimes get so mad you start cussing
everyone down the line because your morning mail is long, long past
due?
Do you take it out on your secretary?
The mail boy?
The limo driver?
The cargo handler?
The plane captain?
The weather man?
Or did you ever stop to think
that maybe you were at fault?
Could be.
Herb Protzmann, superintendent
of Office Management, has been
receiving one complaint after another regarding the late arrival of
dispatch mail. A little investigating
has turned up these examples:
At station A the mail was always late at the district office but
on time at the airport offices. It
was found that the station's mail
arrived early in the morning—
before the district offices were
open. It therefore did not go into
the city with the early morning
limo but stayed at the station. The
next TWA flight was late in the
afternoon and the dispatch was
held for the limo serving that
flight—only to arrive downtown
too late to be handled that day.
Headwork Needed
This happened regularly but no
one bothered to ask why? Had
downtown and the airport gotten
their heads together the mail could
USE COMPANY DISPATCH
In most instances company
dispatch service will be faster
than special delivery airmail to
on-line stations. The stamps are
impressive but the string envelope is fasterl
Every day an average of 1,600
pounds of dispatch are handled
through the Kansas City mail
room. At 96c a pound at U. S.
airmail rates, that's an average
gross savings of $1,536 in postage per day.
Use company dispatch — it
saves you valuable time and
saves the company thousands of
dollars!
have been sent in early in the day
on a limo serving a flight for
another airline. That simple!
At station B the dispatch arrived
in the wee hours of the morning.
By 9 a. m. the district office had
its mail but at 3 p. m. the airport
offices had seen nothing of theirs!
Again, nobody asked why. A little
investigation found the station's
mail pouch on a commissary cart
in the hangar—unintentionally forgotten for nearly 12 hours. A
couple of phone calls early in the
day probably would have solved
the mystery in a hurry.
The district office at station C
(Continued on Page 6)
Air Competition
Plays Small Part
In Rail Decline
Washington—Claims of subsidized airline competition as a factor in declining railroad revenue
were refuted last week by Robert
Ramspeck, executive vice-president
of the Air Transport association,
before top rail executives sitting
in on a sub-committee meeting of
the Senate Interstate and Foreign
Commerce committee.
Ramspeck told the rail men
that, while airlines have boosted
their passenger traffic, railroads
lost seven times as much as the
airlines gained last year.
A Powerful Trend
Citing factors more important
than airline competition which
have caused rail losses, Ramspeck
said railroads have been showing
declining passenger traffic ever
since the close of World War I,
years before the arrival of the commercial air transport.
In 1933 the rails recorded only
12 billion passenger miles. After
that, rail carriers effected a partial
recovery due to the general revival
of business and also due to improved rail equipment and reduced
rates.
"But the basic cause of the present decrease in rail traffic is a
resumption and continuation of
a trend more powerful than air-
(Continued on Page 6)
A predicted all-time record for
air travel over the long Memorial
day week-end got off to a flying
start last Friday when the first
Constellation Sky Coach out of Los
Angeles carried 114 persons —
believed to be the largest number
of persons carried on a regularly
scheduled airline flight.
The record load consisted of 77
adults, 32 infants in arms under
two years of age and five crew
members.
With the Connie filled on its initial eastbound coach flight, a second section with DC-4 equipment
was added from LAX to accommodate another 51 passengers.
Other indications of a probable
record week-end came from Chicago and Indianapolis, two of the
first stations to report new high
loadings.
Chicago topped its previous system record of 898 passengers loaded
in one day by handling 1049 passengers on May 26, first day of
the four-day peak period.
Indianapolis TWAers on May
30 tacked up a new boarding mark
with 281 passengers, breaking their
station record of 230 set last year
on the same date.
Beulah Scott Moves to
MKC as Archives Chief
New York — Beulah Scott, file
specialist here, will transfer to
Kansas City June 5 where she will
be supervisor of the company's Archives department, according to
Marie Acton, Files Installation supervisor, MKC.
Miss ScOtt will replace Kay Storr
Winman, who is resigning July 1
to give her full time to being a
housewife.
A TWAer for four years, "Scot-
tie," as she prefers to be called,
brings a wealth of file training to
her MKC position. She is a graduate of the New York School of
Filing and also New York university, where she studied records
management courses.
After a few years in the business
world, she couldn't resist the government's offer of girl's career with
the navy. As a WAVE Scottie
served in the office of naval intelligence for two and a half years,
stationed in Washington, D.C., and
Honolulu.
PHL BOWLS 'EM OVER
Philadelphia — The district
office here is bowling 'em over—
with reservations, that is, for the
American Bowling congress in
Columbus. One hundred and five
bookings have been made so far
and the event still has 10 days to
go. PHL also booked 75% of the
women from the city who bowled
in the women's tourney in Minneapolis; the other 25% used train.